Charging for Make Overs

[Rhinestone]

I have recently become a consultant for a cosmetics company and will be recieving their training in facials and and applying make up.

I attend a number of shows a year and plan to start offering make-overs for competitors and charge a small fee say £5 (unless they then purchase a reasonable quantity of the cosmetic products in which case the make over would be FOC). I will only be using the products that the cosmetics company will have trained me in.

I am not a bautician and have no training as a make up artist but I won't be advertising or claiming that I am.

I just wanted to make sure that this was ok? I have public liability Ins from the cosmetics company (though I need to read it in depth) and I will also check this doesn't invalidate the insurance for my retail business.

Can anyone forsee any issues I might have with this?

[Jezclayton]

You say you have become a consultant for a cosmetics company.

Is it anticipated in such role that you would set up your own little sideline business selling makeovers? I very much doubt it and also doubt that their Public Liability insurance would cover your extraneous activities.

Before pushing ahead I suggest you speak to the cosmetics company first and check. As regards the makeovers, have the training being offered first and establish that you're competant at it. I don't think anyone will thank you for leaving them looking like Minnie Mouse with a hangover, especially at a public event.

[obscure]

I have recently become a consultant for a cosmetics company does this mean you are employed by them or self employed?

I attend a number of shows a year and plan to start offering make-overs... Are you attending at your own expense or are you there on behalf of this cosmetics company?

If the former then their insurance won't cover you and if the latter your sideline would probably get you in trouble with them.

[Rhinestone]

Self employed for cosmetics and at shows through my normal business.

The other alternative which is ok with the self employed insurance is to do make over but dontate fee (which would be nominal to charity) and hope that the cosmetic sales generated would warrant the time spent on facials and makeovers.

[obscure]

If you want to sell cosmetics why not just focus on "selling". If your in the shampoo trade you don't give someone a wash and blow dry in the hope they will buy the shampoo afterwards. You focus on pitching the product to potential customers.

Sure if you had a team of people one could do a makeover while others used that to attract customers and pitch to them. But as a lone person seems to me your wasting selling time doing makeovers. Maybe a better idea would be to invest and get a video made of you doing a makeover, which you use at shows to attract people, while you sell product.